Technical support on labour conditions in the informal economy

This project aims at supporting the development of new strategies to reduce informality, unregistered employment and job insecurity and to generate conditions conducive to the development of sustainable enterprises in Argentina. Labour informality is one of the main decent work deficits in Argentina. In 2014 a new law (number 26940) was approved, including incentives for formalization, sanctions, and instruments for better detection of infringement cases. The ILO's strategy is to strengthen, sensitize and provide technical assistance to the social partners so that they can discuss and implement new policy measures to formalize the informal economy, in line with the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204). Interventions will focus on : 1) revision, redesign and strengthening of the inspection policies of provincial and local governments; 2) awareness-raising activities with social partners, including tripartite dialogues in the “informal economy seminars”; 3) elaboration of diagnoses on critical sectors with high informality (domestic workers, trade, self-employed workers, brick workers); and 4) technical assistance to revise and adopt new policy instruments and regulations that may facilitate formalization in critical sectors.

Project symbol

ARG/16/01/RBS

Admin unit

CO-Buenos Aires

Start date

01/01/2016

End date

31/08/2018

Total allocation

194490

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

194490

Development Partners

Core voluntary funds (RBSA)

Country/Countries

Argentina

Outcomes

Formalization of the informal economy